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100 Grams - Flour Stamp Dandong City, Liaoning
| Issuer | Dandong City Grain Bureau, Liaoning Province |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress print on a pale guilloche underprint. To the right, a vignette of a traditional Chinese pavilion with covered walkway amid trees; denomination 100克 in large characters to the left, with value numeral 0.1 in the upper right corner. Year 1988 enclosed in an ornate blue decorative border panel at the base. |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用说明 一、本票只限在丹东市内粮店购买粮食及粮食制成品。 二、本票严禁买卖、伪造或涂改，遗失不补。 0.1 (Translation: Instructions for Use 1. This coupon is only valid for purchasing grain and grain products at grain stores within Dandong City. 2. Trading, counterfeiting or altering this coupon is strictly prohibited; lost coupons will not be replaced.) |
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Grain and flour ration coupons were the backbone of China's planned distribution system from the 1950s through the 1990s, but municipal-level issues like this one from Dandong — a border city on the Yalu River opposite North Korea — operated in parallel with provincial and national allocations. Local bureaus printed their own denominations to manage hyper-local supply constraints, and the Dandong City Grain Bureau's issues were not valid beyond city limits. By 1988, the national ration system was already being wound down in coastal and reform-zone cities, making late issues like this one short-lived in practical use.
The coupon was demonetized as Liaoning moved toward open grain markets in the early 1990s.